Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is an anime produced by Studio Gainax. Directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi, it was the final mecha anime produced from Studio Gainax and has garnered even more praise than both Gunbuster and even Neon Genesis Evangelion. Relased in 2007, Tenegn Toppa Gurren Lagann starts out like an affectionate parody of mecha anime, especially older anime very much like GunBuster. It then goes on to deconstruct elements of those anime before reconstruction them. Then, after a time skip, the show deconstructs anime like Neon Genesis Evangelion and FLCL before reconstructing them as well. Because of the similarities between the two along with a shared tone and the fact that two of the main characters are based off of Gunbuster's, this anime is considered to be teh closest thing to a successor GunBuster has.